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Daily Archives: 23 Sep 2005

More and more, video game-related courses are being offered in colleges around the country in response to the digital media industry’s appetite for skilled workers and the tastes of a new generation of students raised on Game Boy and Xbox. –Michael Hill –More Colleges Offering Video Game Courses (AP|MyWay) Seton Hill University January, 2006 (3 weeks, 3 credits; online) EL 250: Videogame Culture and Theory

Ambiguous word choices are the source of some misunderstandings. Scientists often employ colloquial terminology, which they then assign a specific meaning that is impossible to fathom without proper training. The term “relativity,” for example, is intrinsically misleading. Many interpret the theory to mean that everything is relative and there are no absolutes. Yet although the measurements any observer makes depend on his coordinates and reference frame, the physical phenomena he…